A Novel P2P Content Sharing Scheme Supporting Multiple Services

Peer-to-Peer technology for content distribution on Internet including file sharing, live streaming, video on demand (VoD) has recently attracted significant attentions from academies and industries. Most of P2P applications only support single P2P service without data sharing between different services, such as popular P2P file downloading applications, which usually adopt single-service content sharing scheme. In P2P systems, the more peers share resources, the more efficient of the P2P overlay with better performance, and it also could potentially reduce traffic of the network. In this paper, we propose a multi-service P2P content sharing scheme, which enables content sharing between different services. Based on the performance analysis and simulation results, our proposed scheme can provide more seed peers for a downloading peer and accelerate the download rate than current single-service content sharing scheme.